After half an hour's fight, the sail bagging and slatting furiously, it was lashed anyway around the yard, and the men crawled slowly down again, jammed and bruised against the shrouds by the wind.
The wheel was spinning back and forth, the ship rolling in the trough, and the upper spars, hanging by their gear, slatting back and forth as the ship rolled.
The mainsail was blowing and slatting with a noise like thunder, when the captain came on deck, and ordered it to be furled.
Amid the deafening noise, with the ripping and slatting of the sails, the threshing of the ropes and pollys, and the roaring of the sea above it all, I could not think.
Bourdelais stood upon the poop glancing first at the slatting canvas and then at the Spanish vessels within the harbor, growing every moment more indistinct in the wrack and mist under our lee.
But he ceased his yelping to listen to a new noise--a thunderous slatting of canvas accompanied by shouts and cries.
The tackle had fouled aloft and the jib hung slattingover the sprit like a collapsed balloon.
Quickly through the water strode the camel, and, with his lariat in my hand, I plumped down upon the stern overhang just as the mainsail went slatting back and forth across the boat and everybody was ducking his head.
Again a fitful gust, again the slatting of the sail, the skipper put his helm down hard, the boat put her nose into the wind, hung there, and fell back.
All these light sails were threshing and pounding aloft, while the men who should have furled them were busy saving life in the lee channels; the jib was slatting itself to pieces on the end of the jibboom.
He was up the mainmast in a flash, slipped past the slatting topgallant-sail, and reached the sky-sail yard.
As the schooner rounded into the wind, sails slatting and sheet blocks banging and jangling, McKenzie slipped the wheel in the becket, and held the crotch plank while Surrette hooked the crotch tackle into the ring bolts and hove it taut.
Before he could swing the wheel down, the foresail jibed, and the sail split from head to foot and was soon a rectangle of slatting rags.
Within five minutes she had swung around and was steaming up the Firth as fast as her slatting paddle-blades would take her, and with her went the Kelvinhaugh's last link with the land for many a long day.
A thundering row aloft--the big staysail was adrift, slatting and banging and threatening to whip the top-mast out of her.
The stars were shining clear and bright to the westward, but all was black in the eastern sky and the wind blew in savage gusts, which gave them a hard tussle in subduing the bellying, slatting canvas.
The shivering and slatting of the canvas, with the accompanying tremor of the hull, ceased, and the long, easy, floating plunges and soarings were resumed as she again settled easily into her stride.
The creaking of cordage and slatting of sails increased, he felt the schooner heave and roll beneath him, and then he knew that they were leaving Albany.
He could see nothing through the porthole save a dark blur, but he heard the creaking of cordage and the slatting of sails.
And what a pleasant song the creaking of the ropes and the slatting of the sails made!
The mainsail was blowing and slatting with a noise like thunder, when the captain came on deck and ordered it to be furled.
The Arethusa came flying up to the wind with her topsails run down on the caps, and the jib at the boom-end slatting at a furious rate, as the overloaded boats pulled alongside under her lee.
The wind had died utterly away, and the saturated sails were slatting violently from side to side with the motion of the craft.
It caught in the folds of the sails and came down upon their heads in little torrents with the slatting of the canvas.
What with that tough day's work, yesterday, and this confounded slatting about, I'm just about done for.
Presently the square canvas was all a-shiver, slatting furiously and causing the ship to tremble to her keel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slatting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: banging; blasting; bursting; explosive; popping; rapping; tapping
